British cases (chronological) Catherine Hayes Sarah Malcolm Jenny Diver Mary Blandy Elizabeth Jeffries Earl Ferrers Elizabeth Brownrigg Mary Jones Ann Beddingfield Charlotte Gardiner Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Sedgwick Phoebe Harris Sarah Lloyd Ann Hurle Eliza Fenning Elizabeth Fricker Melinda Mapson John Thurtell Jane Scott Bel Mc’Menemy Helen Blackwood Sarah Dazley Elizabeth Browne Maria & Frederick Manning Ann Lawrence Francis Kidder Kate Webster Mary Wheeler (Pearcey) Baby Farmers Louise Masset Emily Swann Edith Thompson Susan Newell Louie Calvert Charlotte Bryant Irma Grese James McNicol Derek Bentley Ruth Ellis From around the world Toni Jo Henry Jean Lee Barbara Graham Velma Barfield Sandra Smith Robert Alton Harris Nicholas Ingram Angel Pui Peng Flor Contemplacion John Scripps Karla Faye Tucker Judi Buenoano Christina Riggs Mariette Bosch Mona Fandey
History of the death penalty in Britain
Complete listings of British executions Please be patient as these are large files
The history of judicial hanging in Britain
England & Wales - 1900 - 1931 & 1932 - 1964
Timeline of British capital punishment
England & Wales 1800 - 1899
English hangmen 1850 - 1964 & 1800 - 1964
The 18th & 19th century index page
Abolition of capital punishment in Britain
English & Welsh executions 1735 – 1800 by court circuit
The reprieve system
Arguments for and against capital punishment
Scotland 1800 -1899 & 1900 - 1963
Focus on the execution of children & juveniles
Northern Ireland 1900 -1961
The female executed 1735 - 1799
Southern Irish executions 1900 - 1954
The female hanged 1800 - 1868 Pt. 2 1868 - 1955
Channel Islands and Isle of Man executions
New for July 2008 : Frances Stewart –the first female long drop hanging.
Overview of the death penalty in 2007
Executions worldwide updated monthly
Female executions 1990 - 2008
Female hangings worldwide 1988 - 2008
Abolition of the death penalty in Europe
Focus on the execution of women in Iran
The situation in Commonwealth countries
The American female hanged
Canadian hangings 1867 - 1962
American female executions 1900 - 2008
Spanish executions 1812 - 1975
Women executed by the Nazis
Focus on executions in Kuwait
Nazi female war criminals
Present day and modern methods
From times gone by
The process of judicial hanging
Burning at the stake
Shooting and the firing squad
The garotte
Lethal Injection
The guillotine
The electric chair
Hanging, drawing and quartering
The gas chamber
The Gallows Galleries
Beheading
The Gallows Galleries 2
Histories of some English “hanging” prisons + places of execution
York castle prison
Newgate prison 1800 - 1902
Armley prison Leeds
Pentonville prison
Wandsworth prison
Holloway prison
Durham jail
Maidstone prison
Strangeways prison (Manchester)
Shepton Mallet
Walton prison (Liverpool)
Lancaster Castle
Gloucester Gaol
Horsemonger Lane
Places of execution 18/19th centuries
Places of execution in the 20th century
Links to other interesting sites
Bibliography